Jeff Perry
Music Theory
Jeffrey
Perry (Associate Professor). Dr. Perry was born in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, and holds degrees from Williams College (B.A. 1982), the California Institute of the Arts (M.F.A. 1984), and Princeton University (Ph.D. 1990). He has taught at LSU since August 1994, and was formerly a member of the music faculty of Duke University (1990-92) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993-94). He has been a Fellow of the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory twice (2004, 2006).
His work has been published in College Music Symposium, Perspectives of New Music, the Indiana Theory Review, the Journal of Musicology, Nineteenth Century Music, Music Theory Online, Music Theory Spectrum, and elsewhere. Recent publications include "Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano: Performance, Hearing and Analysis" (Music Theory Spectrum vol 27 no.1 (Spring 2005). An essay on “Mel Powell and the String Quartet” will appear in Intimate Voices: Aspects of Construction and Character in the Twentieth-Century String Quartet, (University of Rochester Press, 2008), edited by Evan Jones. In February 2007 he presented a paper on "Schubert’s Scena Lieder and the Question of Monotonal Unity" at the conference on Music and the Written Word held by the Indiana University School of Music Graduate Theory Association in Bloomington.
Perry is Vice President of the LSU chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda, the music honors fraternity. He is also a past President of the South Central Society for Music Theory (SCSMT) and has served as a member of the LSU Faculty Senate. Twice a recipient of awards from the Alpha Lambda Delta Freshman Honors Society for superior instruction of freshman students, he is the recipient of three summer research stipends and several research travel grants from the LSU Office of Research and Graduate Studies.Research and Graduate Studies. He currently serves as Reviews Editor of Music Theory Online, a peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Music Theory.
Jeff Perry, Associate Professor
School of Music
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504
Voice: 225/578-3556
FAX: 225/578-3333
E-mail: jperry@lsu.edu
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